marshall curry with the shot

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empowering.

I’ve been doing videos for quite some time; in high school, my friends and I made interesting quasi-educational videos to pass our classes. Some were of our signature chemistry rock band (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQHIo6jhRk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipbQCWENIw)– others of short funny marketing skits (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pb1pfUY2pc), others rapping tonguetwistingly in Spanish (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQjXErDvtM), and others secretly playing pranks on people in public places.

But what Marshall Curry was doing took videography a step further, he took the gritty and real rolling images to a new level by giving a powerful and interesting undertone: a story.

I ended up watching Street Fight, and hearing about Marshall’s incredible story over dinner. He pursued his interests wholeheartedly, and for that reason he was incredibly empowering, especially to a guy who’s really into film.

3 thoughts on “marshall curry with the shot”

  1. That sounds like something that would have interested you a lot! I was just curious as to what the film was on and what about his story interested you?

    • so Street fight was about the mayoral election in Newark in 2002. Marshall followed Cory Booker as he took to the streets to try to get votes in a heated Dem v. Dem election. The film ended up exposing a lot of issues in the American election system. But what interested me most was the process by which the documentary was made– Marshall spent well over a year making it, and ended up in some pretty sticky situations when he attempted to film the opponent, Sharpe James. Since i’ve edited quite a few projects, i know that with 5 hours of video, the editing could take a week. Marshall had WELL over that, and not the same technology as i use today which make things a bit easier. But all in all, i thought both the documentary and the story surrounding its proliferation was amazing.

  2. First of all, your title is very clever.

    Second of all, your chemistry video was totally in my (element).

    Third of all, I would agree that his documentaries are awesome. I have to keep an ion all his future upcoming ones.

    ok sorry for all the chemistry jokes, all my regular jokes Argon…..

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